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Carse of Gowrie, Irish codling, Blinkbonny seedling, Jun- 

 eating, and several other kinds. In my father's garden are 

 the Smith's and ^sopus Spitzemberg, and the Rhode Island 

 greening, and Newton pippin, all excellent apples. Of pears 

 the following kinds : — Summer and Winter bonchretien. 

 Doyenne blanche, Cuisse madame, Vargalien, Beurre, and 

 Seckle. Of plums, the Bulmer Washington ; purple, white, 

 and yellow egg plums ; white and green gages, large Orleans, 

 Bingham plum, and Prince's white gage. The only kinds of 

 cherry which succeed here are, the Kentish, Cluster, and Early 

 mayduke. The grapes most commonly cultivated are, the 

 White Sweetwater, and Blue cluster, or Black Hamburgh ; 

 but in almost all the above gardens are the W^hite chasselas 

 and the Wellington, a very large and fine grape; also the 

 Portugal grape : we have also the Isabella grape cultivated, 

 which is an indigenous grape ; and I saw in the market, ex- 

 hibited as a show by Mr. Leprohon from his garden, two or 

 three bunches of the Isabella, each from 14 to 16 in. long, 

 and about 4 or 5 in. broad at the broadest. I will obtain 

 from Leprohon the weight of the largest bunch, and let you 

 know it. The strawberries cultivated in the gardens of the 

 most wealthy inhabitants, and in those of amateurs, are, the 

 Alpines, Devonshire, Chili, Pine-apple, and by one or two 

 (being just introduced) Wilmot's superb. The gooseberries 

 cultivated are generally the Top sawyer, Whitesmith, Rock- 

 wood, Crown Bob, General de Rottenberg (a seedling named 

 after a governor of the province). These are the fruits most 

 generally introduced by the above gentlemen. 



With regard to floriculture, we have very fine beds of 

 tulips, ranunculuses, anemones, auriculas, polyanthuses; in fact, 

 of all florists' flowers; a great variety of herbaceous plants. 

 Dahlias (or georginas, as they are more correctly termed) 

 have been but lately introduced ; and my father (Benjamin 

 Hart, Esq.) can boast of the best collection of them, more 

 than twenty of the finest double dwarf and tall kinds having 

 flowered in most splendid style at his garden (Beaulieu, near 

 Blinkbonny), and among them Coccinea maxima, King of 

 the Whites, King David, Purpurea, Countess of Liverpool, 

 Beaute d'Angleterre, Golden yellow, and Spectabilis (anemone- 

 flowered). The whole collection was a present from 



Briscoe, Esq., of Firtree Grove, near Dudley. The exotics 

 cultivated are generally pelargoniums, of about 40 kinds; 

 camellias, 10 or 12 kinds, including the Chandler/, only 

 one of which is in Montreal, one which I imported from 

 Messrs. Chandler's having died ; aloes, ericas, cactuses 

 (particularly the speciosissima), Cr^ssulae, H6y«, jFfeliotrc>- 



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